Ya know, for some time now I’ve missed just being able to talk to you guys about shit that’s been on my mind. Whether or not you want to hear it, I need it. G’DAY WORLD started out as my therapy and, along the way, it turned into an interview show. I think that was when Mick and I both got too busy to talk to each other.

But anyway, I need to rant and so I’ve decided to go back to doing rantcasts for a while. The interviews will still be here once or twice a week, but the other days of the week you can expect to hear me jabbering away about what’s been on my mind. Maybe Mick will even join me. And if any of you want to come on for a yarn, you are most welcome. Skype me and let me know.

Kevin Sladek is one of the co-founders of VideoEgg, an innovative, venture-backed company committed to making online video posting truly easy. During the interview we chat about the vision for VideoEgg, Kevin’s guest appearance on “The West Wing”, meeting President Bill Clinton, and what it’s like being only two degrees from Marilyn Monroe.

UPDATE 2005-11-08: Sorry folks. There’s a small problem with the audio about 8 minutes into the show. I’m uploading a new version now. If you got the bad copy, you may choose to download the new one, although I’ve just edited the bad 60 seconds out. Bloody software. Thanks to Garth Kidd for bringing it to my attention!

I’ve been reading Ray’s books and articles on the the future of artificial intelligence and health for years and I’m convinced he’s on the money on both subjects. If you want to get a glimpse of what is likely to happen to human civilization in the next 30 years, you need to listen to this show.

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence. All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray’s Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.

I got an enormous kick out of doing this show and I hope you enjoy it.